Just lost 18-4 to Australia playing as Scotland on the hard level at 15 minutes per half.

It was 6-4 till the 57th minute when Billy Slater just dummied his through up the middle of the pitch and thus went 70m to score under the sticks. It was highly frustrating, considering my fingers we're aching from repeatedly pressing the sprint/fend buttons.

The final nail in the coffin came just four minutes later when the bomb went up in the Smith outjumped Henderson for the score.

We did have a late try claim chalked off by the video referee for being held up over the line but despite the loss I feel like I've won, just for keeping the score very respectable.

One thing that really gets me is that the referee will give penalty after penalty to Australia for me being offside but yet they do it and I get nothing, despite the ring under the Aussie players feet being orange meaning he's offside.

I think I only got two penalties all game, one for a high tackle and one for holding down.

nah mick thats just the game tuning itself to be more realistic. It knows your a bulls supporter and has adjusted the reffing accordingly to give you a more realistic matchday experience.

I tend to get a little annoyed about the offsides too.

If I spot someone offside nearby, I tend to run at them from dummy half, Terry Newton style. But they inevitably just tackle me anyway and don't get penalised. I think it's more down to the fact any offside AI player in the game tends to get back the 10 before actually making contact, rather than the computer referee being against you
Whereas when you control an offside player, you don't automatically go back the 10 (and manually going back is very flaky to be honest). I tend to try and take control of the marker every time to avoid being constantly offside (as then the computer takes control of the defensive line and gets them back).

Anyone else find it stupidly hard to find people to play against online?

My xbox gamer tag is Josef1988 if anyone wants to add me for a game

I have a PS3 bugger or I would play you mate.

I hate playing the Aussies online because I go 6-0 up and then they switch off